NanoMarkets Announces Upcoming Report, Functional Inkjet Inks for Digital Fabrication Applications

Report scheduled to release the week of June 20th. Firm offering pre-publication pricing through June 22, 2011
By: NanoMarkets
 
June 6, 2011 - PRLog -- Glen Allen, VA: Industry analyst firm NanoMarkets today announced a new addition to its publication line up titled, “Functional Inkjet Inks for Digital Fabrication Applications -2011” that will be released the week of June 20th.  Details about the report are available at http://nanomarkets.net/market_reports/report/functional_inkjet_inks_for_digital_fabrication_applications_-2011/ .  

About the Report:

This new report is designed to analyze and quantify the market opportunities for materials firms, ink makers and the specialty chemical industry that are emerging from the use of inkjet technology for manufacturing products and prototypes.

NanoMarkets notes that digital fabrication as a whole has been received considerable attention over the past year or so and for a number of reasons.  Because it is an additive technology it is less wasteful of materials and it can rapidly produce highly customized products it is already widely used as a way to reduce costs and speed up prototyping in the aerospace, automobile, semiconductor, and other industries.  The unique ability of digital fabrication to customize has also made it a staple technology in niches where this is critical; decorative lampshades are an example.  And at the policy level, digital fabrication has variously been seen as a way to help industrialize lesser developed countries and to reindustrialize nations that have adopted service economies.

The many advantages of digital manufacturing has lead both The Economist and Wired  to predict that a digital manufacturing revolution is just around the corner and, should this turn out to be case, there is little doubt that industrial inkjet technology will be key to this revolution’s success.  “Jetted fabrication” offers many unique advantages.  It can support deposition and patterning of many different kinds of materials, for example.  It can also create very small features, enabling quite sophisticated end products to be fabricated.  In addition, jetting is a well understood and relatively low cost printing technology, which will lower the barriers to entry to digital fabrication markets.

As the office and home printer markets for inkjet become fully saturated, many in the inkjet business have seen new opportunities in digital fabrication.  This is already a major preoccupation for makers of equipment and print heads and service bureau.  However, the opportunities for ink makers and specialty chemical companies that are inherent in jetted manufacturing may not be as apparent.

With this in mind, NanoMarkets is publishing this report, which is designed to guide firms to where the ink-related new business potential is to be found.  It examines the key ink-types that will make money over the coming decade for functional printing as well as a time table for the emerging markets for these materials.  As with all NanoMarkets reports, this report contains a granular eight-year forecast of inks for jetted fabrication as well as an analysis of the firms that are active in this space.

About NanoMarkets:

NanoMarkets tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets created by developments in advanced materials. The firm has issued numerous reports and content releases related to transparent conductors, conductive coatings and inks and related materials.  Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.

Contact:

Robert Nolan
NanoMarkets
(804) 360-2967
rob@nanomarkets.net

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NanoMarkets, a Virginia-based analyst firm offers market research and analysis coverage of advanced materials and emerging electronics and energy markets. Visit www.nanomarkets.net for a full listing of NanoMarkets' reports and other services.
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